Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Rwanda signing bilateral agreements with President Paul Kagame, the third stop in his four-nation Africa tour.
In recent years, Rwanda has been a staunch ally of Israel, notably abstaining, together with Nigeria, during a 2014 Palestinian statehood bid at the the United Nations Security Council.
Earlier in the day, Netanyahu was greeted by Kagame and a 100-man honor guard at the airport, then headed straight to the Kigali genocide memorial.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at the memorial for the Rwandan genocide in Kigali on Wednesday, July 6, 2016 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
Netanyahu and his wife Sara visited the museum, which is dedicated to the more than 1 million Tutsis who were murdered in 1994 by Hutu militias. Some 250,000 Tutsis are buried at the site of the museum.
Earlier this week, Rwandans celebrated Liberation Day, which marks the end of the genocide.
After visiting the museum, Netanyahu laid a wreath at a wall on the museum compound.
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